Poetic Elements and Figurative Language

The general topic of a poem.

• personification

• mataphor

• meter

• theme

Tags

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.7.2D

comparing two unlike things saying that one thing is the other (do not use "like" or "as")

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• stanza

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

extreme exaggeration

• hyperbole

• connotation

• personification

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

Poetry that uses poetic language but does not follow a pattern of rhyming or meter.

• free verse

• dramatic poetry

• concrete

• narrative 

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

expression of ideas or feelings through words, usually having form, rhythm, and rhyme

• connotation

• simile

• symbol

• poetry

Tags

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.RI.5.4

"I will not eat them with a mouse
I will not eat the in a house
I will not eat them here or there
I will not eat them anywhere"
(Dr. Seuss, Green Eggs and Ham)
The ending of these lines show ____

• simile

• hyperbole

• rhyme scheme

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

It is raining cats and dogs is an example of this type of figurative language

• idiom

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5B

CCSS.L.4.5B

"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked" is an example of what sound device?

• assonance

• idiom

• alliteration

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

repeating vowel or consonant sounds at the ends of words

• alliteration

• poetry

• rhyme

• repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

ideas and feelings that come to the reader's mind; not the dictionary definition

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• connotation

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

CCSS.L.4.5